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When Art & Money Don't Mix

August 4, 2009 by Marion Maneker

Gianni Monteleone, Hedge FundKipton Cronkite formerly worked at B of A in investor relations. He’s also a party circuit fixture who began promoting himself through the vehicle of KiptonArt, a cross between a charity and an art incubator. One of his projects was to help Robert Jain, a head trader at Credit Suisse commission a series of works around investment world terms of art. The sea-change in social understanding of Wall Street ended up being recorded in these works:

There’s a painting of gathering clouds inspired by “hedge fund” called Ominous; there’s a stock-ticker painting featuring the phrase “We will allocate your payments and credits in a way that is most favorable to us”; there’s a light-box of snarling red bulls. The most disturbing might be Gianni Monteleone’s depiction of a Wall Streeter floating underwater, money spilling out of his briefcase.

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